Damn Youth is a thrash metal and crossover band from Caucaia, Ceará, Brazil, active since around 2013 and signed to UGH! Discos. The band debuted with the 2015 demo "Skate in Hell" and released their full-length album "Breathing Insanity" in 2018, a 13-track record praised for blending old-school thrash aggression with punk energy; they followed it with the album "Descends Into Disorder" in 2023.

Damnation City is a speed/thrash metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, signed to Kill Again Records. Drawing influence from the old German thrash school as well as bands like Slayer, Dark Angel, and Razor, the band released the album "Dead and Buried" in 2022, a six-track record covering themes of death, anti-religion, and horror.

DannaH Project is an instrumental heavy/post-metal project from Belo Horizonte, Brazil, formed in 2016. Performing without vocals — described as "no voice, no face, just lights and shadows through the sound" — the project blends aggressive and melancholic passages across a prolific output that includes the 2024 album All Empires Must Fall, their eighth release, recorded at Ilha do Fuzz Estúdio in Belo Horizonte.

Darchitect is a death/thrash metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2014 by Alex Marras, Gabe Gifoli, and Lucas Coca — alumni of bands Hawker Hart and Vennegorth. The band's name fuses "dark" and "architect," reflecting themes of hell, chaos, depression, and society; their debut album Mechanical Healing was released in March 2017 via Die Hard Records after being tracked at The Bunker studio in São Paulo.

Dark Abyss of Life was a depressive black/gothic metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, operating under that name from 2012 until their split-up. Originally known as Raining Forest, the band explored themes of death, nostalgia, and personal struggle, and released material through their Bandcamp page before ultimately disbanding.

Dark Alliance is a heavy metal band from the Marília/Tupã region of São Paulo state, Brazil, formed in 2024. The band plays traditional heavy metal with themes centered on fantasy, evil, darkness, and power, and is listed on Encyclopaedia Metallum as an independent act with a lineup featuring vocals, twin guitars, bass, and drums.

Dark Butcher is a death metal band from Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, listed on Metal Archives with anti-Christian lyrical themes. The band was short-lived and has since split up, leaving behind a small body of independent releases.

Dark Desires is a raw black metal band from Teófilo Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil, active from 2004 to 2024 as an unsigned, independent project. Their debut material was originally conceived in 2004 but not recorded and released until 2014, with releases including the album "Black Hearts" and "The Wanderer and His Shadow" on Bandcamp.

Dark Devotion is a melodic death/black metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2016. Their debut release "Loss," issued in January 2016, blends death and black metal elements and is available on Bandcamp with tracks including "Marcha Fúnebre" and "Grief, Pain and Despair."